Quotes by : John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living....

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope....

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood,....

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived....

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all....

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health,....

Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every....

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.